Watch_Dogs

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They often had PS3 exclusive content as well.  I don't think this is anything new.

 

I don't remember this being so obvious last gen, but you're probably right and i just forgot. The 60 extra minutes for Watch Dogs do stand out, as i chose the X1 version over PS4 and PC :s

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I'm with you as a PC gamer, but at the same time I feel like a lot of games have gotten way too long just to combat rentals or whatever.

 

So maybe it isn't such a bad thing.

 

True, and good point that length deters rentals hahaha though if you're Larry and are still in love with Gamefly that's not a factor for you :laugh:

 

And yes, games are very long these days, which is a good thing. Better a long one than a shortie....Ubi are especially this, if it's not 25 hours just to complete the basic missions (half of which are nearly identical of course) then it's not a Ubi game :D

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His ethnicity and contradictory accent caught me by surprise. Sorry for me being captain obvious but I laughed when I saw him speak.

 

They were playing up the phone shop guy being Indian/Pakistani stereotype for laughs, that's for sure. I found him funny for the way he carried himself and seemed totally honest and natural, i'm used to that kind of accent so that in itself wasn't a real factor. Hopefully he's in the game :laugh:

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PC version screenshots

 

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Looks great but honestly not much better than AC3 did on PC in the highest settings, which is not surprising as the engines are very related. This is not a criticism, I think we should stop treating Watch Dogs as a graphics poster child and focus on the gameplay. We only made the next gen association because it was supposedly the first look we got of what was the future two years ago...and also because that Ubi presentation was de facto the first confirmation that new consoles were coming. This isn't fair to Watch Dogs, it's being held to higher requirements than other games, when actually we have no reason to expect it to look any better than Black Flag or Blacklist or any other contemporary Ubi PC release.

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Looks great but honestly not much better than AC3 did on PC in the highest settings, which is not surprising as the engines are very related. This is not a criticism, I think we should stop treating Watch Dogs as a graphics poster child and focus on the gameplay. We only made the next gen association because it was supposedly the first look we got of what was the future two years ago...and also because that Ubi presentation was de facto the first confirmation that new consoles were coming. This isn't fair to Watch Dogs, it's being held to higher requirements than other games, when actually we have no reason to expect it to look any better than Black Flag or Blacklist or any other contemporary Ubi PC release.

It's because Ubisoft marketed it as as a graphical powerhouse at first reveal, they really went on about how great the graphics were going to be, until the downgrade when they showed it off again a year later.

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It's because Ubisoft marketed it as as a graphical powerhouse at first reveal, they really went on about how great the graphics were going to be, until the downgrade when they showed it off again a year later.

 

More likely they got swept up in their own hype, which can happen to the best intentioned people. I don't think there was any downgrade, the game was never that groundbreaking to begin with, it's at best a souped up version of AC3/AC4. I believe that clip they showed at E3 2012 looked so good to us because of psychological reasons, not because it was that amazingly gorgeous. Still very nice looking, but that's not the point of this game I think.

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More likely they got swept up in their own hype, which can happen to the best intentioned people. I don't think there was any downgrade, the game was never that groundbreaking to begin with, it's at best a souped up version of AC3/AC4. I believe that clip they showed at E3 2012 looked so good to us because of psychological reasons, not because it was that amazingly gorgeous. Still very nice looking, but that's not the point of this game I think.

 

There are comparison videos where they visited the exact same area, and things like the lighting engine just look so much worse.

 

Things like the lighting on the bridge at the very start of this video. Its why I don't pay too much mind to the graphics in E3 reveals anymore. Seen too many games take a serious downgrade in the visuals department because they got too ambitious. Dark Souls 2 being another example when they had to rip out the new lighting engine entirely because it brought the last gen consoles to their knees. Oddly it never made a reappearance in the PC version.

 

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GTX 670 Gameplay:

 

PC Ultra settings:

 

Night:

 

Evening:

 

Rain:

 

http://gamingbolt.com/watch-dogs-pc-footage-on-ultra-setting-shows-day-night-with-rain-looks-closer-to-e3-2012-footage

 

 

First 30 minutes gameplay:

 

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/23/5745986/watch-dogs-gameplay-video-walkthrough

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Looks great but honestly not much better than AC3 did on PC in the highest settings, which is not surprising as the engines are very related. This is not a criticism, I think we should stop treating Watch Dogs as a graphics poster child and focus on the gameplay. We only made the next gen association because it was supposedly the first look we got of what was the future two years ago...and also because that Ubi presentation was de facto the first confirmation that new consoles were coming. This isn't fair to Watch Dogs, it's being held to higher requirements than other games, when actually we have no reason to expect it to look any better than Black Flag or Blacklist or any other contemporary Ubi PC release.

 

 

the engine for  watch-Dogs is  all new engine they built just for WD  it has no relation to AC3 at all or even AC4  

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There are comparison videos where they visited the exact same area, and things like the lighting engine just look so much worse.

 

Things like the lighting on the bridge at the very start of this video. Its why I don't pay too much mind to the graphics in E3 reveals anymore. Seen too many games take a serious downgrade in the visuals department because they got too ambitious. Dark Souls 2 being another example when they had to rip out the new lighting engine entirely because it brought the last gen consoles to their knees. Oddly it never made a reappearance in the PC version.

 

 

Still don't think so man, they were not showing CG, it's not like KZ2 from 2005. As in the clips Audio posted, the PC ultra settings look exactly like the 2012 demo, maybe less dynamic lighting. It looks good, looks very good, but not groundbreaking. It's not Crysis in 2007, we should not judge this game for graphics, hence i'm getting it on X1, which is the least impressive of the PC/PS4/X1 trio.

 

 

the engine for  watch-Dogs is  all new engine they built just for WD  it has no relation to AC3 at all or even AC4  

 

Not a software engineer and this is all my conjecture, but whatever the name may be, i'm pretty sure it's a very related and nearly identical engine. All Ubi games have been using the same core engine since Far Cry 2/Avatar, the Dunia engine. It's still one of the prettiest around, I think. The Avatar game is from 2009 and still gives current games a run for their money, and AC3 on PC looked very nice in ultra.

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I like McKays vid

 

If they were even showing scenes from the same time of day half the time I would've considered them directly comparable.

 

I could show you a picture of a beach and the same beach at night from different cameras and ask you which camera you prefer, but that'd be pointless eh?

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